Australian Federal Police have busted an international drug ring and seized nearly 5 tons of ecstasy in what they say is the world´s single largest seizure of the pills.
Fingerprints could be used to detect traces of drugs or explosives in one of the most significant improvements in the technology for years.
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) launched a new program Tuesday that allows certain illegal immigrants to coordinate their removal from the US with ICE without the risk of home raids, arrest or detention.
France labeled as unacceptable a Rwandan report accusing French leaders of being involved in the 1994 genocide in which as many as 800,000 Rwandans died.
Citigroup Inc. may be forced to buy back about $8 billion in auction-rate securities and be fined as much as $100 million in a settlement with regulators over claims it improperly saddled customers with untradeable bonds, two people familiar with the case said.
U.S. federal prosecutors are probing an alleged criminal price-fixing conspiracy in the $1.8 billion market for packaged ice, with the help of a former industry executive who told authorities the collusion was nationwide and forced up prices for consumers and businesses, The Wall Street Journal reported.
For hundreds of homeless people, posing as phony hospital patients provided them a clean bed and cash. For the hospitals that processed them, it meant a full patient-load and a paycheck from the government.
Connecticut became the fourth state to sue Countrywide Financial Corp. on Wednesday, alleging that the giant mortgage lender broke state banking and consumer laws by making loans home buyers couldn´t afford and by other "oppressive, unethical, immoral and unscrupulous" practices.
Judge Royce Lamberth of the US District Court for the District of Columbia on Wednesday ordered the unsealing of hundreds of documents related to the FBI´s probe into the 2001 anthrax attacks. Among other papers, the released documents include 14 search warrants issued against government scientist and biodefense researcher Bruce Ivins, who had recently emerged as a suspect in the mailings.
Midland Food Services LLC, the operator of 92 Pizza Hut restaurants in six states, sought protection from creditors for the second time in eight years, blaming the slowing economy and minimum-wage increases.
U.S. Navy submarine has been steadily leaking radioactive water since June 2006, and has since stopped at three Japanese ports, Guam and Pearl Harbor, the U.S. government said Thursday.
EU antitrust regulators on Thursday opened a probe into a U.S private equity fund´s purchase of Dutch chemical producer DSM Special Products BV, saying they feared the deal could lead to food and drink companies paying higher prices for ingredients.
President George W. Bush will seek to reassure Asian allies that Washington remains committed to trade and democracy in the region, in a speech set for Thursday on the eve of the Beijing Olympics.
US President George Bush on Monday signed into law the Libyan Claims Resolution Act, which allows the Secretary of State to settle remaining civil claims brought by US citizens against Libya for bombings allegedly carried out by groups linked to the government in the late 1980s.
A South African judge on Tuesday delayed a ruling on whether to drop corruption charges against politician Jacob Zuma until September 12 in order consider Zuma´s argument that he should have been consulted before the charges were filed. In December 2007, South Africa´s National Prosecuting Authority served an indictment on Zuma, charging him with corruption, fraud, money laundering and racketeering.
Yahoo and Microsoft are in the process of drafting a voluntary code of conduct for doing business in China and other countries that have restrictive Internet policies. The two companies are working alongside a handful of other Internet companies and human rights groups to develop the code, and plan to have a completed version available later this year.
The Department of Justice is prosecuted their largest hacking and identity theft case in history, as 11 people have been charged in connection with the hacking of retailers, as well as identity theft.
The Bush administration and former top CIA officials denounced a new book´s assertion that the White House ordered the forgery of Iraqi documents to suggest a link between Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and the lead hijacker in the Sept. 11 attacks.
The Bush administration has consistently voiced support for free trade globally, and pushed for treaties with countries around the world removing trade barriers. Thus, it is no wonder that the U.S. Trade Representative´s Office prefers to avoid and even ignore circumstances that reveal conflicting policy which proves embarrassing to the government.
US Senators Joe Lieberman (ID-CT) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC) have introduced a bill designed to establish a procedure for all habeas corpus petitions made by Guantanamo detainees.
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